Order and message hoop



July 5, 1932. H. D. BRYANT ET AL ORDER AND MESSAGE HOOP Filed June 22. 1951 yan% W. H-5peed lbw Patented July 5,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOWARD D. BRYANT AND WALTER H. SPEED, OF BLUEFIELD, VIRGINIA ORDER AND MESSAGE IIOO]? Application filed June 22,

This invention relates to an order and message hoop, the general object of the invention being to provide means whereby orders, messages and the like may be delivered to a person on a train or other moving vehicle by one standing on a platform or the like by means of a handle and a hoop detachably connected with the handle and having thereon a flange for holding messages and the like :0 whereby a person can hold the device by the handle in a position where the hoop can be looped on the arm or grasped by a person on a moving vehicle which will remove the hoop from the handle so that the person on the vehicle has the hoop with the message thereon.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in o the accompanying drawing and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing wherein like. characters denote like or :5 corresponding parts throughout the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a side view of the invention with parts broken away.

Figure 2 is an edge view thereof.

In these views, the numeral 1 designates a handle which has a short length of fibre tubing 2 at each end thereof, the tubing projecting from the handle and the numeral 3 indicates a hoop of substantially U-shape with a straight part 4; connecting the ends of the limbs thereof, the central portion of the curved part of the hoop being bent to form a pair of converging legs 5 which terminate in a coil 6. A sleeve 7 is placed on the center of the part 4 and, if desired, the ends of the 1 strip of wire forming the hoop can terminate in this sleeve as shown in Figure 1 so that the sleeve connects the two extremities to the wire together. A double clamp 8 is attached to the sleeve and provides means for clamping orders, messages and the like between itself and the sleeve. The hoop, the sleeve 7 and the clamp should be made of non-rust material.

The hoop must be of sufiicient size so that 1931. Serial No. 546,120.

it can be easily looped on an arm of or grasped by a person on a moving Vehicle such as a train and the spring part composed of the parts 5 and 6 frictionally hold the hoop in one of the sleeves but permit the hoop to be as easily pulled from the handle.

It will of course be understood that either end of the handle can be used for receiving, the parts 5 and 6 of the hoop and it will also be understood that the handle is held by a person standing on a platform or the like with the messages or orders held between the clamp and the sleeve. Then as the train or other vehicle passes a person on the train grasps the hoop or passes his arm through the g5 hoop so that the hoop will be released from the handle and thus the person on the train secures the hoop with the message or order thereon.

Of course if desired the device can be hanm dled by a person on a train and the hoop looped on an arm of or grasped by a person on the platform.

It is thought from the foregoing description that the advantages and novel features of the invention will be readily apparent.

It is to be understood that changes may be made in the construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts provided that such changes fall within the so scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new is:

A device of the class described comprisin a handle having a'socket at one end thereo a5 a hoop of substantially U-shape with a straight part connecting the ends of its limbs together, the central part of the curved portion of the hoop having converging legs terminating in a coil for engaging the socket in the handle, a sleeve on the straight part and a clamp carried by the sleeve.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures.

HOWARD D. BRYANT. WALTER H. SPEED. 

